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The House also passed House Bill 2516 in a 68-52 vote, which would make it more difficult for an independent candidate to get on the ballot for statewide office by roughly quadrupling the number ...
The 2022 Kansas abortion referendum was a rejected legislatively referred constitutional amendment to the Kansas Constitution that appeared on the ballot on August 2, 2022, alongside primary elections for statewide offices, with early voting from July 13.
Readers have asked The Star if abortion will be totally banned if Kansans vote “yes” on the amendment. Here’s the deal.
Kansas SB 180 [1] or the Kansas Women's Bill of Rights is a bill that bans any identification of a gender other than the gender recognized at birth in the US state of Kansas. [ 2 ] [ non-primary source needed ] Kansas governor Laura Kelly vetoed the bill in April 2023. [ 3 ]
But voters rejected it in a 59% to 41% vote during the August 2022 primary election. Democrats and supporters of abortion rights view that as a referendum against any legislation on abortion.
Kansas operates a closed primary system in which only voters who have affiliated with the given political party may vote in that party’s primary and runoff primary elections. However, the chairman of each political party may allow registered Independents to vote in the given political party.
In just the past week alone the 2019 ruling has been referenced in an injunction against decades-old abortion restrictions and used to argue for strict protection of voting rights.
Legislatively-referred amendment: Iowa Require Citizenship to Vote in State Elections and Allow 17-Year-Olds to Vote in Primaries Amendment: A legislatively-referred constitutional amendment that would add only a citizen of the U.S., rather than every citizen of the U.S., can vote; and supports allowing 17-year-olds who will be 18 by the ...